Bryan, for some reason some recent posts of mine to this list have not been
posted --
am I off the list for some reason? (There was a time when my company email
was down for a week,
it might have bounced too much mail or something).
Tom Grey
Here's a very relevant John Adams quote:
I must
Dear armchairs,
who among you knows something new about the consequence of entropy on
sustainability and environmental/ressource economics (books, papers, etc.)?
Steffen
I know something: any article on economics with the word entropy is likely
to be nonsense, unless it itself declares such
Well, Fred beat me to the punch here on the smart-aleck response. Unless
you mean entropy as something other than the standard accepted definition
- namely, a decrease in ordered energy on a thermodynamic level - then we
can't help you.
Actually, no, here's a thought: in six billion years,
Do you mean this even when entropy is used in the context of information
theory?
Gustavo
No, Claude Shannon's
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/paper.html
usage, to separate noise from information, regards statistical entropy, a
measure of dispersion, a different meaning from
Is grade inflation worse at higher priced colleges? I can imagine that if a student flunks out at a higher priced college, that it costs that school more in revenue and that it might be hard to attract students if they have to pay alot of money and then work hard to get good grades. Has any
(insert caveat about theorizing without data)
Now then, a big selling point for competitive universities is retention rate
- how many incoming freshmen they keep on to graduate at the same school.
Obviously, good grades are a key factor in retaining students.
For universities that take the
For universities that take the long view, better
grades mean better job
opportunities for graduates. Better-paid graduates
mean better endowments
in the future. For schools that have seen their
300th birthday (i.e.,
Harvard), it's not so unreasonable to assume such a
precognitive
